Elon Lindenstrauss

Elon Lindenstrauss was born in 1970 in Jerusalem

Lindenstrauss was born in Jerusalem in 1970 to Joram and Naomi Lindenstrauss, both professors at the Hebrew University. He grew up in the Beit HaKerem neighborhood and attended the Hebrew University Secondary School. In 1988 he won a bronze medal for Israel at the International Mathematical Olympiad.

He joined the IDF's Talpiot program and studied at the Hebrew University. He earned a BSc in mathematics and physics in 1991 and a master's degree in 1995. His 1999 doctorate on entropy properties of dynamical systems was supervised by Benjamin Weiss.

After his doctorate he worked at the Institute for Advanced Study, Stanford University and the Clay Mathematics Institute. He became a professor at Princeton University in 2004 and at the Hebrew University's Einstein Institute of Mathematics in 2009. In 2024 he joined the permanent faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study.

His research covers ergodic theory and its uses in number theory. He worked on the Littlewood conjecture and on the Arithmetic Quantum Unique Ergodicity conjecture. He received the Fields Medal in 2010 for his work on measure rigidity.

He is married to Avigail, and they have 3 children.